Markens Benoit Quotes & Sayings

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate. — Lydia M. Child

Margot used to like describing men as 'my unhappy love affair.' But hadn't that presumed the existence of a happy love affair that made the others unimportant? What is unhappy is the only kind Margo ever has? — Francine Prose

I'm such a geek. — Jessica Chastain

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example. — Todd Helton

In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student, "Do you think I could be a writer?" "'Well,' the writer said, 'do you like sentences?'" The student is surprised by the question, but Dillard knows exactly what was meant. He was being told, she explains, that "if he likes sentences he could begin," and she remembers a similar conversation with a painter friend. "I asked him how he came to be a painter. He said, 'I like the smell of paint.'" The point, made implicitly (Dillard does not belabour it), is that you don't begin with a grand conception, either of the great American novel or masterpiece that will hang in the Louvre. You begin with a feel for the nitty-gritty material of the medium, paint in one case, sentences in the other. — Stanley Fish

I have found many times, the obstacles you believe to be ahead of you are nothing more than the baggage you are dragging behind. — Eric Robison

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery? — Henri Matisse